River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-21
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

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Saturday the 10th was another hot
dav throughout 81 -,.ansIss -asIanJa, ia,
showing the highest temperature. lO2 and
Denver. Col, the lowest, -. Advices 20 the
associated press show the following extreme
temperature at the points named on the
10th Nearly all of them report il the hot
test day OF the year and some of them the hot
test for many years The following figures
show thenumber of deg az the various points
New \ ork, 20 Washington, Is; Baltimore,
100; New Castle, Del, 100; Richmond, Va,
lO4; Winchester. Va, 1O2; PHILADELPHIA IS:
Wilmington, Del, 100 Staunton. Va, 100;
Lockhaven, Pa, 100; Troy, y. Y, %.
The excessive heat continued on the
18Th, though the temperature throughout
the Northwest was greatly modified, and
rarely reached 50 high as 20 deg. At New
ork the temperature was 90 deg and at
ml'fnight on the 18th. a deg At Philadel-
phia = deg, and 81 deaths from the heat re-
ported. Raleigh, y. C., iu4 deg, Lynch
burg, Va, lub; st Louis, Mo-, L ,, with -
cases 81 prostratiOn and deaths; Cincin-
natl Ohio, lO2 deg To l04 deg. seventy-one
cases of prOstTation, 3 proving fatal.
Louisville, KY, 100 deg, twelve cases of
sunstroke, fatal
Joseph Gruenhut, the Chicago So
cialist, said in an interview that all hope
Of a new trial for the condemned anarchists
had been abandoned. Funds were still be-
ing collected for them, hut the money, in
stead OF being applied TO defray legal ex-
penseS, Is TO tie used for an entirely differ
en- purpose Twenty or thirty persons are
TO he set out shortly over the entire state to
procure signatures for a petition to Gov
Oglestiy praying that the death penalty be
committed. A stated sum will be paid for
each signature secured.
On the 10th, Mayor Francis of st.
Louis appointed the committee TO carry the
invitation 10 President Cleveland to visit
the city of St Louis during the fall festivi-
ties On this committee were the presidents
OF the various associations having in charge
the fal! festivities and many prominent cit
liens representing the Union and Confeder-
ate soldiers and business men. The cOlOred
citizens are represented 10y one OF their race.
The delegation will startJuly ..
At Lexington. Miss, on the 18th r.
B. Chatham. Independent and Republican
candidate for the legislature, shot and
Killed John =. Harkins, associate editor of
the Lexington Bulletin. Harkins' father is
one Of the Democratic nominees for the leg
lsiature. Chatham and young Harkins had
teen discussing politics and drinking beer
freely during the day up to the time the dis
pute arsse.
About 100 persons were injured in
the ST. Thomas, Ont, Grand Trunk-Mich
Central r r. collision, on the 18th, and II
were killed IL Is reported that the engineer
OF the Grand Trunk train had been drinking
hut Is claimed the main cause of the disas-
ter was the failure Of the air brakes TO work
Nine lives were lost at St. Thomas.
Ont, ON the 18th, by the collision of a Grand
Trunk excursion train with a passenger
freight train of the Michigan Central at the
rrgsHe - A.
freight train was set on fire 10y the collision
and "A number Of cars burned
At Detroit, Mich, on the 10Th Ber-
nard Michelfender. son of wealthy brew
er, died from hydrophObia. He was bitten
by petdO five weeks ago. On Tuesday
the first symptoms of hydrOphobia APP
peared, and after suffering terribly he died
after one of his commissions.
During a thunder storm at Mount
Pleasant, Tenn, party Of colOred people
attending burial in the cemetry took ref
uge under the trees. An oak tree was
struck by lightning under which nine per
sons we're standing and all were killed
Mrs. John A. Logan has been i'll at
Carhondale, Ill, for several days, but on
the 18th. the crisis seemed to have passed
and her physician thinks she will get along
3 II right. >he will probably be confined to
her bed for a week or two.
The ex-union negro soldiers at New
/ Orleans are clamoring for admission to the
Grand Army of the Republic Having been
refused by tue local department. they will
appeal to the Grand encampment at St
/ Louis.
Recently an eight-inch vein Of quartz
carrying free god in immense quantity has
been developed on lands of the Lake Supe-
| nor Iron company near lshpeming, Mich.
/ 10y officials OF that company
BY collision of two stock trains on
he Burlington & Missisouri r. R. near Lin
ccln, Net, thirteen loaded cars were
/ burned and damage done to the total
amount of $4,000.
Fire broke out in the car works at
Terre Haute. Ind, on the 18th and des.
| troyed the Whole estabIishm mt. The loss
will be about SI5O,OO1, insurance unknown.
The largest fire Port Huron, Mich.
has had in years, was the burning of Cooley
/ 4 Campbell's planning mill on lumber yard
on the 18th. Loss $4,000, insurance $1,000.
Ba timore Il Ohio Garrett will prob
ably gobble up the Cincinnati, Hamilton a.
/ Dayton road, instead of selling his OWL
/ great line to a syndicate.
A syndicate has purchased the island
Of Santa Catalina, off the California coast.
for S300,OOo and will make it a health resort.
Charles Crosse. prominent citizen
Of Cincinnati, hanged himself because he
/ feared he would become a pauper.
Cattle have declined % cents per
/ hundred pounds in Chicago within week,
under excessive supplies.
The President and Mrs Cleveland
spent Sunday quietly resting at the Parson
| age at Forestport-
Congressman James F. Campbell win
seek the Democratic nomination for gov
| ernor Of Ohio.
David b. Mosely. founder and editor
| Of the Religious Herald, died at Hartford,
/ aged -.
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